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Monday, February 25, 2008
Chuck Colson :: Townhall.com Columnist
The Archbishop and Sharia
by Chuck Colson
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Nor will, as Williams hopes, permitting sharia on British soil aid social cohesion. On the contrary, Williams’s fellow bishop, Michael Nazir-Ali, recently spoke about what he calls “no-go zones” in Muslim communities where Christians dare not enter. As a result of death threats, bishop Nazir-Ali and his family require police protection.

Nazir-Ali, whose father had to leave Pakistan after converting to Christianity, told the UK Telegraph that sharia is “in tension” with “fundamental aspects” of Anglo-American law. That is because our “legal tradition” is “rooted in the quite different moral and spiritual vision deriving from the Bible.” This crucial difference seems to have escaped the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The West’s greatest contribution to civilization has been the rule of law, the bulwark of freedom, captured in Anglo-American jurisprudence. Now a ranking religious official proposes compromising that with a theocratic church rule? Please.

Williams’s comments are a tragic sign of the Church’s weakness. We fawningly respond to Islamic overtures for dialogue, even as we see Christians being persecuted in Muslim nations—and sharia law being imposed on others right in our own backyards.

This weakness is the stuff that empty churches are made of.

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Chuck Colson was the Chief Counsel for Richard Nixon and served time in prison for Watergate-related charges. In 1976, Colson founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, which, in collaboration with churches of all confessions and denominations, has become the world's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families.
 
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JFP..
..I can categoricaly state that future generations of British people WILL be hardened drinkers given the propensity of this nations 13 year olds to hang around on street corners drinking extra strong cider!!
I cannot understand how you can say that honour killings are part of UK culture?? There have been numerous convictions in recent years for people engaged in that hideous practice.
In order for there to be an Islamic takeover of Britain then there would have to be an Islamic takeover of all our armed forces, this is simply never going to happen.

more creeping sharia
There are "no-go" areas in Britain, France and Scandinavia that native police dare not enter without the permission of the ruling imams who of course enforce sharia. Polygamous marriages contracted elsewhere are recognized in Britain and Canada, with Welfare paid to each wife up to 4 and progeny. Polygamy is against the law in those countries but sharia trumps local law. The foot baths and prayer rooms sprouting everywhere in public spaces are sharia. The growing veiling and demand that drivers' licenses, passports and voter registration with obscured faces be accepted is sharia. Canada's largest province Ontario had a narrow miss as a leftist fact-finder recommended sharia courts for Muslim domestic disputes but there an international coalition of feminists including some Muslim women who are by definition apostates stopped it temporarily. Young women of Muslim families are extremely accident prone in the West, falling off balconies with clockwork regularity, or suffering more direct honor killings by their male relatives for flouting sharia edicts about non-Muslim boyfriends or simply adopting western dress.

These phenomena and much more are flagrant anywhere Muslims become over 5-6% of the population but it starts anywhere a single devout Muslim sets foot (and footbath). Every Muslim is bound by his religion/ideology to bring sharia wherever he goes.

They are literally the only religion who impose their views on non-believers, who must give up their piggy banks, dogs, national flags with crosses, ice cream swirls that look like Arabic script for Allah, satirical cartoons, eating lunch while Muslims fast, surgical hygiene when female Muslim medical students refuse to bare their arms to scrub, security when fully veiled ciphers enter banks etc.

Ten years ago, all of this was going on, but underneath the radar. Now it's obvious. In another ten years?
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